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Black screen after bios screen

Turd Ferguson

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My sisters Toshiba laptop is playing up, no hardware changes or anything had been done, she just booted it up, we get the boot window with the press F12 And F2 to enter menus text etc, then it loads bios and screen goes black. the screen is on and working but it is just black. i have tried doing a fresh install with xp disk, black screen, new hd, black screen.

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when you say you did an install, did that all go sweet or did it too freeze on a black screen before the isntall started?
as ozzie said i'd check the internal hardware, ide ribbon/sata connection to hdd. also is there a card reader, could be it's boot menu in the bios is a bit whacked and the boot order is looking for a cd/sd card or something. double check the bios and it's boot order.
 

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Are you able to enter the bios?

Check the boot device hasnt changed to an external device (usb ect..)

But by those symptoms it sounds like a hardware issue to me.
 

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i didnt do an install, if i try i get a black screen, cant enter bios or set boot order cause i get a black screen.
 

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does it do any beeps from the pc speaker? could be gfx card failure

oops you saidyou can see the first initial bootup... so its not gfx.. my bad :S
 
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Are you able to boot from a Windows CD?
I had a laptop today that was doing the same thing, it would boot to the bios and then would shutdown and restart as soon as it tried to boot from the HDD. I was able to boot from a windows cd. Turns out that the laptop had gone into Hibernation mode and had damaged the NTLDR file. Replaced this file with one from the Windows CD and it booted fine.

Yours may be a similar problem.
 

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na like i said it wont boot from cd and if press the key to enter bios i get the same black screen
 
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